Any one help me about the Recursion Concept Diagramatically.

[sgunasekhar]

I was just confusing How it works ?

[OriginalGriff]

Have a look at Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion#Recursion_in_computer_science[^] - it does explain it pretty well.

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[Keith Barrow]

Here you go[^] :) The concept of recursion is pretty much that a method keeps calling itself, in c# this is can be summed up with:

public void MyMethod()
{
MyMethod();
}

Note that this will cause an exception because, for practical purposes, the program cannot execute an infinite number of methods without the method ending (technically, there is a stack which monitors method calls, by recursing you add to the stack without removing. As this has limited space, you eventually cause the stack to overflow). So you need to make sure there is an end condition that will always break the loop:

public void MyMethod(int i)
{
if(i < 10)
{
i++;
MyMethod(i)
}
}

looks reasonable. But it will get stack overflow if you start with values of i >= 10. This brings in one of the disadvantages of recursion, that sometimes getting the end condition can be hard. For a simple example it is easy, but for more complicated stuff it isn't. The final thing to remember is, just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. Aside from performance concerns, recursive algorithms can be harder to understand than plain loops (and you can always write a loop as a recursion, and always write a recursion as a loop) so you need to decide whether the recursive solution is neater than a looping one. As an example, I'd loop across a list, but recursively traverse a tree (which can be seen as a recursive data structure).

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[uspatel]

you can easily clear concept by assuming factorial example http://www.c4learn.com/introduction-to-recursive-function-in-c.html[^]

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[Abhinav S]

Recursion ->

CallMethod()
{
while (IsTrue())
{
Console.Write("Recursing...");
CallMethod();
}
Console.Write("Done");
}

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[Alan Balkany]

Definition of recursion (n) re·cur·sion [ ri kúrzh'n ] [See recursion]

[Keith Barrow]

I'd google recursion if I were you.

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[Amarnath S]

On the CS106b[^] page, you'll find a Course Reader. This Reader has two chapters exclusively for Recursion, explained very well.

[Lost User]

Try this link[^] sorry - I couldn't resist

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